You miss the point. It is all about creating consumption!Yes, and this really depends. A 1980 car, well stored and taken care when not in use, which is used only once a fortnight for getting groceries in the village 5km away, probably is in good technical state. If it were not for the political will ("reduce pollution") that gets old cars banned, it would probably be more ecological as economical to continue using that car for some years more, instead of trashing a perfectly good item for a newly made one.
We are at a point where most people have everything they need. The biggest issue for our economy is to keep up the necessary ever-increasing growth of consumption. So, the environment story is here just to make people throw away more stuff and buy new one.
This is a "double feature" scheme: on one hand the people are told that they must do something for the environment (and obviousely that is a moral imperative, so you cannot say anything against it), but then, if you look closer, those who are in power are all associated with investors, they make up these moral imperatives, while in fact they only have to provide for the profits, for "creating new markets".
Donald Trump called them the "establishment", I call it "feudal-socialism": it works like socialism when treating the people as government-owned cattle: we are unfree, we are told what to think, we are told what to do, all with moral imperatives. And it works like feudalism when securing the profits for the elite. Just like in the middle ages, when religious morals were employed by the gentry to force the people to comply with what was said to be god's will. Now it's no longer god's will, but it's still the same scheme of unquestionable morals abused to subdue the people.
The essential point is that it is the same people. You can complain about how bad the world is, and how endangered the environment, and how troublesome our over-consumption, and how poor the people in Africa, and so on and so on, and you will be perfectly welcome with all that sermon. But what you're not allowed to say is that it's the same people who actively create those problems and who tell us that we must feel guilty because of them!
The priest who talks about how sinful the world is and that we all must repent, is the same person who actively rapes little boys in the sacristy. The aid agencies who tell us that we must care for all the refugees are the same persons who actively send midwifes (instead of prevention consultants) to Africa to create more over-population. The people who complain about the climate catastrophy are the same people who make big money with carbondioxide certificates. And so on and so on. But that's what you must not say - because if you say that openly, and attach the proper names, then -guess what- you are a nazi.